chant-based organ scores

eft94530

Questions about chant-based organ scores have appeared several times.
I have started this discussion to capture the suggestions and insights
in one place.

When contributing, may I suggest that each post should have ...
one composer
one book or score title
identify the chant or fragments it contains (chant text, Liber Usualis page, Graduale page)
maybe a URL pointing to an online score
maybe a URL pointing to an online sound file
avoid abbreviations
Use the "edit" link to update your contribution as you discover more info related to your entry.

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Why chant-based organ scores?
Well, if you need an answer, how about this ...

Organists & Organ Playing in 19th-Century France & Belgium
by Orpha Ochse

page 139:

One of the most persistent and perhaps the most effective
advocate for the use of Gregorian melodies in organ music
was Alexandre Guilmant. Like his teacher Lemmens and his
colleague Gigout, Guilmant sought a greater unity between
organ and choral music in the liturgy. In 1895 he explained:
"In the alternating pieces it is necessary for the organist
to play the Gregorian melody or, at least, versets based on
these themes. I think that there are very interesting things
to be written in the polyphonic style with these old tonalities
and on such beautiful chants as these. The German organists have
composed pieces based on the melodies of chorales, forming a
particularly rich organ literature; shouldn't we do likewise
with our Catholic melodies?"

Limited online book browsing at
http://books.google.com/books?id=d54n2z_oFmgC

Book for sale at
http://www.ohscatalog.org/ocororplayin1.html

kevinf

Well, somewhat being biased, I commend Charles Tournemire's l'Orgue Mystique to you.
My somewhat verbose entry on this forum.

http://musicasacra.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=1297&page=1#Item_0

Tournemire set 52 offices for the year. However, they do not correspond to the year per se. The organ of Tournemire's time only played for one Sunday in Advent and only one in Lent. There are also feast days outside Sunday that he set.

Wondering about what chants he used on a Sunday? Email me privately for that info as the article that annotates that is not for general release. In general he used the introit chant for the prelude, the offertory chant for the offertory and the communion for the communion piece. The other two pieces in each suite are more complicated.

The great opus of chant based liturgical music.

eft94530

Alexandre Guilmant

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 1re Livraison (Book One)

1
Fete de Purification de la Sainte Vierge
Offertoire sur l'antienne
Lumen ad revelationem gentium
(3 pages)(dur < 5:00)(LU p _)(GR p _)(GM p 608)

2
Fete de Purification de la Sainte Vierge
Fugue (Sortie) sur l'antienne
Lumen ad revelationem gentium
(3.5 pages)

3
Commun des Fetes de la Sainte Vierge
Deux Strophes et Amen sur l'hymne
Ave Maris Stella
(1.5 pages)

4
Fete de l'Annonciation ou autres fetes de la Ste Vierge
Offertoire
Ave Maria
(3 pages)
http://www/e-partitions.fr (zip)
http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer/Guilmant.php (pdf, mid)

5
Commun d'un Martyr / Commun des Vierges / Commun des Saintes Femmes
Deux Strophes et Amen sur l'hymne
Deus tuorum militum / Jesu corona virginum / Fortem virili pectore
(2 pages)

6
Commun des Apotres
Strophe, Interlude et Amen sur l'hymne
Exsultet orbis gaudiis
(2 pages)

7
Fete de l'Immacule Coeur de Marie
Sortie sur l'hymne
Quid nunc in tenebris tristis aberras
(2 pages)

8
Fete de la Pentecote
Deux Strophes sur l'hymne
Veni Creator Spiritus
(2 pages)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 2me Livraison (Book Two)

1
Fetes de la Sainte Vierge
Offertoire sur un chant de l'hymne
Ave maris stella
(6 pages)(dur 6:30)

2
Fetes de la Sainte Vierge
Sortie sur un chant de l'hymne
Ave maris stella
(7 pages)

3
Commun des Confesseurs
Six Strophes pour l'hymne
Iste confessor
(5 pages)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 3me Livraison (Book Three)

1
Fete de Notre Dame des Sept Douleurs
Prose
Stabat mater dolorosa
(6 pages)
NOTE: choir (v 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19) organ (v 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20)

2
Fete de Notre Dame des Sept Douleurs
Variations et Fugue sur le chant
Stabat mater
(10 pages)

3
Fete de Notre Dame des Sept Douleurs / Des Cinq Plaies de N S J C
Hymne
O quot undis Lacryumarum / Pange Lingua gloriosi lauream
(2 pages)
NOTE: choir (v 1, 3, 5) organ (v 2, 4, amen)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 4me Livraison (Book Four)

1
Fete du sacre coeur de Jesus
Offertoire
Benedic ... Auctor beate saeculi Christe
(4 pages)

2
Fete du sacre coeur de Jesus
Elevation ou Communion
_ (chant(s) to be determined)
(2 pages)

3
Fete du sacre coeur de Jesus
Strophe, Interlude, Amen sur l'hymne
Auctor beate saeculi
(1 pages)

4
Fete du sacre coeur de Jesus
Sortie sur l'hymne
Auctor beate saeculi
(5 pages)

5
Fete du Saint Sacrement
Deux Strophes sur l'hymne
Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium
(2 pages)

6
Fete du Saint Sacrement
Deux Strophes et Amen sur l'hymne
Sacris solemniis
(2 pages)

7
Fete de Noel
Deux Strophes et Amen sur l'hymne
Jesu redemptor omnium
(2 pages)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 5me Livraison (Book Five)

1
Fete de la Purete de la B V Marie / Immaculate Conception
Strophe et Amen sur l'hymne
Praeclara custos virginum
(1 pages)

2
Le 3me Dimanche de l'Advent
Offertoire sur l'hymne
Creator alme siderum
(4.5 pages)

3
Les Dimanches de l'Advent
Strophe et Amen sur l'hymne
Creator alme siderum
(0.5 pages)

4
Le 3me Dimanche de l'Advent
Sortie sur l'hymne
Creator alme siderum
(5 pages)

5
Commun de plusieurs Martyrs
Strophe, Interlude et Amen sur l'hymne
Sanctorum meritis
(1 pages)

6
Le Dimanche de Quasimodo / Low Sunday / Easter-2
Hymne
Ad regias agni dapes
(2 pages)

7
Fete de Notre Dame Auxiliatrice / Fete du St Suaire de N S J C/ Fete de Ste Genevieve / Commun des Confesseurs
Deux Strophes et Amen sur l'hymne
Gallicae custos / Saepe dum Christi
(2 pages)

8
Fete de St Louis / Commun d'un confesseur
Hymne
Rex summe regum / Iste confessor
(2 pages)
NOTE: choir (v 1, 3, 5) organ (v 2, 4, amen)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 6me Livraison (Book Six)

1
Commun des Confesseurs
Marche religieuse (Offertoire) sur l'hymne
Iste Confessor
(4 pages)

2
Fete de Notre-Dame Auxiliatrice / Commun des Confesseurs
Deux Strophes du 2e ton transposé un ton plus bas sur l' Hymne
Saepe dum Cristi / Iste Confessor
(2 pages)

3
Fete du St Sacrement
Elevation
Ecce Panis
(1 pages)

4
Fete du St Sacrement
Elevation
Ecce Panis
(1 pages)

5
Fete du St Sacrement
Strophe pour l'hymne
Pange lingua gloriosi Corporis mysterium
(1 pages)

6
Fete de la Dedidace des Eglises
Verset pour l' Hymne
Coelestis urbs Jerusalem
(1 pages)

7
Commemoraison de tous les SS Souverains Pontifes
Offertoire sur l'hymne
Rex gloriose, praesulum
(6 pages)

8
Fete du Coeur Immacule de la B V Marie
Hymne
Quid nunc in tenebris
(2 pages)
NOTE: choir (v 1, 3, 5, doxologie) organ (v 2, 4, interlude, amen)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 7e Livraison (Book Seven)

1
Vepres de la Fete de Ste Cecile
Antienne 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Hymne, Magnificat
Cantantibus organis / Valerianus / Caecilia / Benedico te / Triduanas / Jesu corona virginum / Est secretum
(4 pages)

2
Vepres de la Fete de Ste Cecile
Sortie dans le style de Bach sur l'antienne
Cantantibus organis
(4 pages)

3
Fete de la Toussaint
Communion sur le chant de l'hymne
Placare Christe servulis
(4 pages)

4
Commun de Plusieurs Martyrs
Cinq Strophes sur l'hymne
Sanctorum meritis
(5 pages)(dur 8:00)

5
Le Dimanche a Vepres
Strophe et Amen sur l'hymne
Lucis creator optime
(1 pages)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 8e Livraison (Book Eight)

1
Fete du St Sacrement
Offertoire sur l'hymne
Adoro te devote
(4 pages)

2
Fete du St Sacrement
Elevation ou Communion sur l'hymne (dans le style de J S Bach)
Adoro te devote
(2 pages)

3
Fete du St Sacrement
Sortie sur l'hymne
Adoro te devote
(4 pages)

4
Fete du St Sacrement
Five Strophes (_)(style de J S Bach)(style de J S Bach)(_)(_)
Adoro te devote
(5 pages)

5
Commun d'un Martyr / Commun des vierges / Commun des saintes femmes
Strophe sur l'hymne
Deus tuorum militum / Jesu corona virginum / Fortem virili pectore
(1 pages)

6
Fete de St Gabriel
Deux Strophes pour l'hymne
Christe, sanctorum decus angelorum
(2 pages)(dur 2:30)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 9e Livraison (Book Nine)

1
Commun des Vierges et Martyres
Offertoire
Afferentur
(6 pages)(dur 7:00)(LU p _)(GR p 504)(GM p _)

2
Fete de St Vincent De Paul
Hymne
Quis novus coelis agitur triumphus? / Iste confessor
(2 pages)(dur 2:45)
NOTE: choir (v 1, 3, 5, 7) organ (v 2, 4, 6, amen)

3
Fete de la dedicace des eglises
Sortie grand choeur
end of "Jerusalem et Sion filiae" / start of Introit "Terribilis est"
(3.5 pages)

4
Fete de St Pierre aux Liens
Interlude et Amen Hymne
Miris modis repente liber
(0.5 pages)

5
Fetes de la Ste Vierge
Offertoire
Ave Maria
(3 pages)(dur 5:00)(GM p 183)

6
Fete de l'Ascension / Fete de la Transfiguration de N-S Jesus Christ / Fete du St Nom de Jesus
Strophe et Amen
Salutis humanae sator / Quicumque Christum quaeritis / Jesu dulcis memoria
(1.5 pages)

7
Fete de Ste Marie Madeleine / Commun des Vierges / Fete de Ste Genevieve
Deux Strophe et Amen sur l'Hymne
Pater superni luminis / Jesu, corona virginum
(1.5 pages)
NOTE: choir (v 1, 3, 5) organ (v 2, 4, amen)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 10e Livraison (Book Ten)

1
Fete de la Pentecote
Offertoire
Veni sancte Spiritus / Factus est repente de coelo sonus / Confirma hoc Deus / Veni Creator Spiritus
(6 pages)(dur < 4:00)(LU p _)(GR p _)(GM p 398/402/401/none)

2
Fete de la Circoncision de N S Jesus Christ
Offertoire ancienne sequence a la Sainte Vierge
Laetare puerpera
(4 pages)(dur _)(LU p _)(GR p _)(GM p _)

3
Pour les fetes semi-doubles
Fugue et oraison
Ite missa est; Deo gratias
(6 pages)(dur _)(LU p _)(GR p _)(GM p _)

4
Fete du Saint Sacrement
Strophe pour l'hymne
Sacris solemniis
(1 pages)(dur 1:30)(LU p _)(GR p _)(GM p _)

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LU == Liber Usualis (1961) == http://www.musicasacra.com/pdf/liberusualis.pdf
GM == Gregorian Missal (1990) == http://www.musicasacra.com/books/gregorianmissal-eng.pdf

All of the Guilmant books are available at
http://www.ohscatalog.org/shmugbyco.html

URLs for online scores will be added when discovered.

EDITS:
fixed typos, added durations, added chant book pages

Ragueneau

I like what I have heard of the Charles Callaghan books

M. Jackson Osborn

I unfailingly include organ vs. choir literature in recitals, and whenever possible and appropriate, at actual liturgies.
My favourites are -
the de Grigny hymns: Veni Creator and Verbum Supernum Prodiens nec Patris
the Titelouze hymns: Veni Creator and Ad Coenam Agni Providi (this tune has been paired also with
Ad Regias Agni Dapes and Te Lucis ante Terminum)
The literature from this school is, of course, almost limitless.
Of great interest also are the Hymn and Magnificat settings by Samuel Scheidt.

ghmus7

Of course one must mention Durufle. also many other French composers of the Romantic School, including Dom Paul Benoit.

Joseph Michael

With great enthusiasm, I recommend "A Gregorian Liturgical Year" by Gerald Near. (Aureole Editions) Composer Near bases his improvisations on the proper of the mass--introit, gradual, alleluia, offertory, communion--one for each Sunday of the year. These pieces are of moderate difficulty.

David Andrew

Gerald Near has composed a fair few sets of organ works based on chant. "Chantworks" (multi-volume) and the "St. Augustine Organbook" come to mind. Some require more preparation than others, but they all have a good "payoff."

marajoy

This thread is 3 years old, and yet there is still only volume 1 available of Near's "A Gregorian Liturgical Year?"
(sad face....)

Randolph Nichols

Now that we are talking about chant based organ scores again, do any of you Anglophiles out there know the source of the chant George Oldroyd used as the basis of his Liturgical Improvisation titled "Verbum Supernum Prodiens"? It's the last of a set of three.

These are very effective pieces by the way, and not very difficult.

Heath

Marajoy, I e-mailed Mr. Near a few years ago and he said he was working on volume 2 (he mentioned that more folks than just me were clamoring for more!) . . . I e-mailed him again about 2 months ago and never heard back. It may not be happening, sad to say.

Allan D

I just recently discovered a book by Philip G. Kreckel entitled "Melodia Sacra: Twenty Organ Pieces in Mode and Rhythm of Gregorian Chant" (copyright 1942). I've only tried out a few of them so far, but they sound nice and aren't difficult.

I'd also like to put in another plug for the music of Dom Paul Benoit, who is without a doubt my favorite 20th century composer. I've recorded several of his elevations and other pieces, which you can find on YouTube.

Steve Collins

I just borrowed a copy of Rene Quignard's "Feast of the Most Blessed Sacrament: Organ pieces on Liturgical Themes". There are some really wonderful pieces in this 20-page collection, much of it for manuals only or pedal ad lib. Did he compose more collections like this? It was published by the old "GIA" the 1940s.

Paul F. Ford

I am re-engraving Dom Paul Benoit in Finale so I can create MIDI files to enjoy and pray with this music I first heard nearly fifty years ago. He is the BEST!

jpal

By the way, L'Orgue mystique is all online. Snatch it while you can!

marajoy

jpal- it's not a question of whether it's going to go away... it's a matter of the fact that it is *still* illegal to download in the US. (I have, however, considered taking my computer across the border to Canada, finding an internet hook-up, and downloading the whole thing... ;-) )

Andrew Motyka

Mara,

I did that about a year and a half ago. I'm glad I'm not alone in my thinking. My wife was away for a weekend, so I took an overnighter up to Niagra Falls and downloaded the whole thing.

rich_enough

Twelve Choral Preludes on Gregorian Chant Themes by Jeanne Demessieux (1921-68) includes some gorgeous pieces based on the following chants:

* Rorate Caeli (Choral Orne)
* Adeste Fideles (Musette)
* Attende Domine (Choral Paraphrase)
* Stabat Mater (Cantabile)
* Vexilla Regis (Prelude)
* Hosanna Filio David (Choral Fugue)
* O Filii (Variations)
* Veni Creator (Toccata)
* Ubi Caritas (Ricercar)
* In Manus Tuas (Litanie)
* Tu Es Petrus (Marcia)
* Domine Jesu (Berceuse)

See the GoogleBooks preview here.

lindholm1913

@Steve Collins ‒ found my way to this forum thanks to a web-search for Quignard, and found two postings. Here's my response … l'Organiste Grégorien, originally published by the Procure Générale in Paris in 1928, includes as far as I know volumes for Christmas, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, Sacred Heart, Assumption and other Marian feasts, and All Saints; they include an abundance of short-ish preludes ‒ Entrée, Offertoire, Elévation, Communion, Sortie for mass, and then Entrée, five psalm antiphons, Magnificat antiphon and Sortie for Vespers ‒ on the propers. I've been lucky enough to find (and, occasionally, have the chance to use) all of them, except the mass for Pentecost.

You'll find my e-mail address in the Quignard page on my site: feel free to get in touch.

http://halfdane.be/topic.php?id=285&method=A-Z&letter=Q#

eft94530

In case someone needs something for Nov 2 Commemoration of All Souls ...

Dies irae

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Glazunov
Russia

Fantasia for organ [dies irae] (1934-5) (opus 110)
20 pages, 16+ minutes
score
http://www.imslp.org/wiki/Fantaisie,_Op.110_%28Glazunov,_Aleksandr%29
soundfile
http://classical-music-online.net/en/production/14988

Note that the score can be "chunked"
so as to make it more manageable for liturgical use ...
Moderato (PDF pages 1--8)
Allegretto pastorale (PDF pages 9--12, be sure to get the final chord from page 13)
Allegro risoluto: Fuga (PDF pages 13--20)

eft94530

Perfect for Easter Day ...

Fernand de La Tombelle (1854-1928)
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_de_La_Tombelle
Assistant to Theodore Dubois at La Madeleine in Paris

Suite d'Orgue (Temps de Paques) (1911)
I. Prelude et Introit [5 pages][chant "Resurrexi, et adhuc tecum sum, alleluia"]
II. Offertoire [4 pages][chant "Haec dies"]
III. Elevation [2 pages][chant "Pascha nostrum"]
IV. Communion [2 pages][Easter chant before 1564, or for April 1st new year]
V. Sortie [7 pages][chant "Alleluia"]

Online score ...
http://imslp.org/wiki/Suite_d%27orgue_%28La_Tombelle,_Fernand_de%29

Online soundfiles ...
I.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Ggp3wa_Uo
II.
none located
III.
none located
IV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yJ8Zbgoi2M (0:00 - 3:52)
V.
none located

eft94530

Dominique-Charles Planchet (1857-1946)

Offertoire de Pâques: sur des thèmes liturgiques (1903)
8 pages
chant fragments noticed: (m1) Terra tremuit; (m42) Pascha nostrum; (m77) O filii et filiae

Online score ...
http://imslp.org/wiki/Offertoire_de_P%C3%A2ques_%28Planchet,_Dominique_Charles%29

Online soundfile ...
none located

Planchet was born near Toulouse France, studied at the Ecole Niedermeyer (School for Church Music in Paris) until 1878, then was at Versailles Cathedral as choirmaster and organist; and from 1895 at St Trinite as choirmaster (succeeding Emile Bouichere) during the titulaires Alexandre Guilmant (1871–1901) and Charles Quef (1901–1931). He taught harmony at the Ecole Niedermeyer, and was secretary of the Societe des Compositeurs. He contributed to Encyclopedie du Conservatoire an essay on conducting (L'art du maitre de chapelle). His compositions include: violin sonata; piano trio; Le Grand Ferre (piece for soloist chorus orchestra); Breiz (symphonic poem in three parts); Ildis (lyric drama in three acts); opera; songs; Masses; organ pieces.

R J Stove

Cool. Another obscure composer to seek out.

eft94530

Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
arranged for organ solo by George Clement Martin (1844-1916)

A Selection of Movements from
Gounod's Sacred Trilogy The Redemption (1882)
Arranged for the Organ (no later than 1888)
1. The Creation: The Darkness p2-3
2. The March To Calvary p4-15 (Vexilla regis prodeunt [p9][p12])
3. Beside The Cross Remaining p16-19 (Stabat mater [p19])
4. The Darkness p20-21
5. From Thy Love As A Father p22-24
6. Unfold, Ye Portals Everlasting p25-28
7. Lovely Appear Over The Mountains p29-31
8. Hymn of the Apostles p32-25

Online score ...
http://imslp.org/wiki/La_r%C3%A9demption_%28Gounod,_Charles%29

For the very curious, a complete piano-vocal score is viewable at ...
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008949837

Online soundfile ...
movement 5 (fragment)
http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7550256

eft94530

Perfect for Corpus Christi ...

Fernand de La Tombelle (1854-1928)
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_de_La_Tombelle
Assistant to Theodore Dubois at La Madeleine in Paris

Suite d'Orgue sur des themes gregoriens (1910)
I. Offertoire [4 pages][sur Introit "Cibavit eos"]
II. Elevation [3 pages][sur Gradual "Oculi"]
III. Sortie [5 pages][sur Sequence "Lauda Sion Salvatorem"]

Online score ...
https://imslp.org/wiki/Suite_d'Orgue_sur_des_thèmes_grégoriens_(La_Tombelle,_Fernand_de)

Online soundfiles ...
I.
none located
II.
none located
III.
none located

M. Jackson Osborn

Corpus Christi?

de Grigny has a nice set of organ versets on Verbum supernum, office hymn at Lauds of C.Chr. He also has several versets on Pange lingua.

Don't overlook Langlais' marvelous Rhapsodie Gregorienne. It is based on Sacris solemnis, Verbum supernum, and Lauda Sion. The first two are office hymns for C.Chr., and the latter is the sequence for the same.

(Granted, this work is a tad lengthy for mass use - unless one has a devoted coterie of postlude listeners - but is always splendid for a sacred recital. It is last in the set of Neuf Pieces.)

(Incidentally, there are two 'verbum supernums'. One is an office hymn in Advent, and the other 'verbum supernum prodiens nec patris' is office hymn at Lauds of C.Chr. It is easy to confuse them.)

Chris Garton-Zavesky

I have in front of me a newly acquired Ten Chorale Preludes on Gregorian hymns, for Organ by Flor Peeters (Opus 76).

Contents;

a collection using the following chant tunes:

Adoro te Devote (the well-known Communion hymn, set several times)

Aeterna Christi Munera

Iam Lucis Orto Sidere (Prime's hymn)

A Solis Ortus Cardine (Advent, I think)

Chorus Novae Jerusalem

Tantum Ergo Sacramentum

Jesu Nostra Redemptio

Deus Tuorum Militum (feasts of Martyrs)

Ut Queant Laxis (Feast of St. John, from which piece of chant we get the "solfeggio" system)

O Nata Lux de Lumine (Christmas)

MarkS

I have in front of me a newly acquired Ten Chorale Preludes on Gregorian hymns, for Organ by Flor Peeters (Opus 76).

Peeters has other chant settings as well (opus 75 and 77), which encompass many other well known chants. I particularly find the settings of Sacris solemnis juncta sint guadia and Placare Christe, servulis in op. 77 to be particularly effective.

Also I would add another plug for David Hurd's A Liturgical Year, which includes a setting of one of the proper chants for each Sunday and feast of the year.

Chris Garton-Zavesky

David Hurd is different from Bob Hurd, right?

MarkS

David Hurd is different from Bob Hurd, right?

Whoops! Well yes, he is quite different from Bob Hurd, but in my tired state I had the wrong composer—I meant Gerald Near, who was mentioned in an above post.

ghmus7

The Glazanov is a major piece, and I have never head it!
He is a fine composer. Stravinsky in his memoirs writes fondly of his musical and personal influence.

ghmus7

Paul: If you are interested in Benoit, I have all of his organ music and did my diss. on him.

M. Jackson Osborn

Healey Willan has several volumes of preludes on Gregorian tunes.

Paul F. Ford

ghmus7, I am interested in Benoit and would love to read your dissertation. What is its title, so I can order it on interlibrary loan.

M. Jackson Osborn

The Mulliner Book has numerous relatively short pieces based on office hymns and the Gloria tibi Trinitas antiphon and its offspring. Ditto the Buxheimer Orgelbuch, the Robertsbridge Codex, and the eldest extant source of alternatim versets, the late XIVth century Faenza Codex. All these date from late mediaeval to early renaissance, and while most of the pieces are alternatim versets, many would be useful for our liturgies as voluntaries at the offertory, communion, and before mass.
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Also, there is a collection of early cantus firmus pieces called Gregorian Chant Themes in Organ Music Before 1750, edited by Dom Claude Gay, O.S.B., and translated by Willm. Tortolano. It may be had from GIA.

It has an excellent bibliography of cantus firmus pickings and features some pieces and alternatim versets from the XVth through the XVIIIth centuries. While I disagree with some highly questionable editorial procedures (notably the arrangement of independent pedal parts for several examples of very early music) and a very few factual errors in an otherwise excellent preface, the book is quite valuable as a bibliographical and early music resource. I commend it highly to all. There are versets based on Ave Maris Stella by none other than Paul Hoffhaimer, several Spanish works, an anonymous French Magnificat, and much more.

I have our fellow Forum Member, Dr Gregory Hamilton, to thank for sending me a copy of this fine book, which has brought me much pleasure.

eft94530

Perfect for Pentecost Day ...

Fernand de La Tombelle (1854-1928)
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_de_La_Tombelle
Assistant to Theodore Dubois at La Madeleine in Paris

Suite d'Orgue (Temps de la Pentecote) (copyright1917)
I.
Prélude et Introit [6 pages]
[chant fragments = Veni Creator Spiritus / Emitte Spiritum tuum / Veni Sancte Spiritus / ...alleluia]
II.
Offertoire [3 pages]
[chant fragments = tibi offerent reges munera / alleluia]
III.
Communion [2 pages]
[chant fragments = O lux beatissima Replecordis intima Tuorum fidelium / ...reple tuorum corda fidelium]
IV.
Sortie [toccata fugue cadenza][9 pages]
[chant fragments = Deo Patri sit gloria]

Online score ...
https://imslp.org/wiki/Suite_d'Orgue_sur_des_thèmes_grégoriens_(Temps_de_la_Pentecôte)_(La_Tombelle,_Fernand_de)

Online soundfiles ...
I.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELdI0AZuPG0 [8:32]
II.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyEcqfK1pro [5:56]
III.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxeVyMdKINU [4:59]
IV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DN7hodgw1Q [9:08]

ghmus7

Wow this is a knockout! Thank you, I didn't know this, MJO what do you think?

ghmus7

I would humbly add this collection of Gregorian,prudes by yours truly...
http://www.wlp.jspaluch.com/13986.htm

ghmus7

Prelude haha

CharlesW

I would humbly add this collection of Gregorian,prudes by yours truly...

I have those "prudes" and they are excellent.

ghmus7

Haha Thank you Charles!

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